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n OVBRALLS. No. 280,574. Patented'July 3, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CARTER, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,574, dated July 3, 1883,

Application filed December 28, 1882. (No model.) Patented in Canada December 31, 1880, No. 12,171; extended April 1G, 1883, NOS. 16,689 and 16,690.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CARTER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overalls, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to strengthen that portion of the garment known as the fork 5 and it consists in sewing a piece of Inaterial across the fork and extending` it up the button and button-hole sides of the ily, one seam of the stitching on the button-hole side of the ily being carried down one side of each button-hole, under it, then up the other side to and along the edge of the strip to the next button-hole, so as to form a double seamA between each hole, as well as a seam near the front edge of the ily, and another seam behind each button-hole, the said strip being preferably sewed to the ily before it has been turned under.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the piece of material as it appears when first sewed to the ily; Fig. 2, as it appears when the fly is sewed down.

The lines A indicate the line of the thread securing the strip of material to the buttonhole side of the ily. It will be noticed that the thread A passes down from the edge of the strip under the button-holes B and up the other side thereof, so as to form a double seam between each hole, as well as a seam near the front edge of the ily and another seam behind each button-hole, thus securing the strip of material referred to to the fly under and on both sides of the button-holes without interfering with the said holes. The strip of material thus secured to the button-hole side of the ily passes over the fork and is sewed to the button side, thereby making the garment so strong at that point that it is almost impossible to tear it. I prefer sewing the strip of material Vto the ily before it has been turned under, as

the stitching around the button-holes would otherwise be visible from the outside of the garment. When the fly has been turned under, it is stitched at its under edge, as indicated by C, which stitches need not pass through the strengthening-strip, while the stitches D, running parallel with O, pass through the fly, as well as the strip referred to.

By the peculiar Inanner of attaching the strengthening-strip to the ily, I secure great strength at the fork, particularly on the button-hole side of the ily, wherethe greatest strength is required.

I do not claim, broadly, a piece of material secured to the fork of the garment; but

Vhat I do claim as my invention is Apair of overalls having the strengtheningstrip secured by a row of stitches, A, passing through said strengthening-strip and extending from the front edge of the strip down one side, under, and then up the other side of each button-hole to and along the said front edge between each button-hole, having the turned edge of the strengthening-strip secured to the ily by the stitches O, and the ily and strip secured to the overalls by the stitches D, as set forth. l

WILLIAM CARTER.

Vitnesses:

CHAs. C. BALDWIN, F. B. FETHERsToNHAUGII. 

